Bazel's full name was Arthur Bazel Montgomery.
Any wizard of the Southern Region who had read History of Plane Pioneering or participated in any plane exploration would certainly be familiar with this name.
For he was the renowned legendary spatial wizard of a thousand years ago—Bazel, wielder of "Distortion."
Bazel was most famous for exploration and conquest.
During that great age of pioneering, Bazel's hand could be found behind the discovery of many new worlds and the construction of their teleportation arrays.
At the same time, Bazel was a standing councilor of the Council of True Knowledge and one of the editors-in-chief of Forest of Time.
Even Angel had read some of Bazel's classic works: Pros and Cons of Plane Conquest, Bazel on Time, Space, and Truth, Analyzing the Multidimensional Properties of Space Through the Plane of Phases...
It could be said that this great wizard of Distortion, through the force of his own thoughts and will, had shaped the pioneering spirit of the following thousand years.
However, if history were a little girl to be dressed up by anyone at will, then the above introduction to Bazel would be the official history, wrapped in silver finery.
Yet for wizards living in the Southern Region, the most beloved secrets about Bazel were instead the unofficial tales clad in punk studs.
Angel had heard one such secret—
It was said that whenever Bazel arrived in a new world, what he did most was not "exploration and conquest," but recording.
Or, to put it more elegantly... writing travelogues.
Yet compared to Bazel's informative popular-theory works, which benefited readers endlessly, the travelogues he wrote were truly quite ordinary. Dry as dust, without a drop of embellishment, as though he were simply keeping a running account.
It was said that, as an editor-in-chief of